March 28, 2014 | San Diego Union Tribune

The rocketing growth of genomics is more than a biotech phenomenon. It’s a San Diego phenomenon. Three leaders in that movement, the most famous customer of genome sequencers and two leaders of local companies that sell such sequencers, talked Wednesday night about what the industry means to health care.

March 26, 2014 | Forbes

If you want more women entrepreneurs to get equity financing and more women to invest in entrepreneurs, give them a tool they want — something simple to use that allows them to dabble and learn before they go all in. Oh, yeah, and someplace where they can collaborate, communicate, and share, which they love doing. That’s just what Portfolia, a crowdfunding site is doing. Now it’s just for accredited investors but when the rules and regulations for Title III of the JOBS Act get sorted out, unaccredited investors can participate, too.

April 1, 2014 | Boston Globe

No April fool! Today is the annual rite of spring for the nation’s technology companies in line to obtain special visas to hire skilled workers from outside the United States. US Citizenship and Immigration Services begin accepting applications for the so-called H-1B visas. A total of 85,000 are available, but probably not for long. Last year the quota was filled in less than a week, a much faster pace than in previous years, when a moribund US economy stifled demand for high-tech workers.

March 29, 2014 | Chicago Tribune

Big, established companies need to reward risk-taking, even failure. They need to capture spontaneous innovation that happens outside formal innovation departments. And they need to look over the shoulder of innovative entrepreneurs. So said panelists at the Forbes Reinventing America Summit, where about 300 CEOs and other corporate executives met for three days. Friday’s early sessions included a speaking appearance by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who focused on immigration reform and the decline in federal research funding.